Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...show voters do not believe Clinton will stand by any principles. Where Clinton draws the line and has fights, says a top White House official, is going to be crucial to the "President's image with the American people." The veto is key. Says Representative George Miller, a California Democrat: "It's the nuclear weapon of American politics. You don't threaten it lightly, and you don't use it lightly." Miller doubts Clinton will have the resolve to use it effectively...
...that a new Newt delivering his inaugural address as Superspeaker last week? It certainly seemed to be. The meanspirited rantings Gingrich's conservative audiences eagerly expect were gone. In their place, as Representative Charles Schumer says, was a speech "most any liberal Democrat" could have given, a talk remarkable for its professed compassion. "You can't believe in the Good Samaritan," Gingrich said, "and explain that as long as business is making money we can walk by a fellow American who's hurt and not do something." Newt even acknowledged that his pet project, a balanced-budget amendment...
...some other factor, he reckoned, worrying that Clinton's mod, over-the-ears hair had turned the tide, though Pitts was convinced Clinton's hair was not short enough and was too pointed on the top. He would have helped Clinton, claiming that "my scissors are neither Republican nor Democrat," but by then he was hopelessly pegged as a Republican journeyman. He gathered up his tools and returned full time to his shop in the nearby Sheraton-Carlton Hotel, where other famous clients, including former Secretaries of State William Rogers and James Baker, came in for their $25 trims along...
Both the Administration and Congress had high hopes for Woolsey when he took over the CIA in February 1993. On Capitol Hill he was known as "the Republicans' favorite Democrat" because of his conservative views on defense. He was picked for the job not because he was close to Clinton but because of his resume. A former Navy Under Secretary and arms-control negotiator, Woolsey was seen as the perfect man to shake up what had become a bloated intelligence bureaucracy...
Attorneys for Chicago Congressmen Mel Reynolds today demanded that sexual molestation charges against him be dropped, after a man stood up in court and announced that the charges against the two-term Democrat were bogus. The man, who identified himself as Reginald Turner, said he was an attorney for a Reynolds campaign volunteer, now aged 18, who had claimed the congressman had sex with her two years ago, when she was underage. Turner said she has now recanted her allegation. He then read a statement that he said she wrote, which states in part that she had been coached...